A treatment to eliminate mosquitoes known to carry the Zika virus will take place today in part of Livonia.

Brian Wilson, Livonia's assistant superintendent for public works, said crews will be out near Newburgh and Schoolcraft today to apply treatment to the area. Those treatments include placing larvicide in standing pools of water, as well as "fogging," a treatment designed to kill adult mosquitoes.

"There'll be pickup truck-mounted foggers that will be going through that area," Wilson said. "(And) men and women with backpacks that can fog off the backpacks."

The fog, Wilson said, is more of a mist and contains a chemical designed to kill mosquitoes. Crews will be working south of Schoolcraft, just east of Newburgh, north of Amrhein and just east of Waco Court. That area contains no residential homes.

The treatment comes a week after city, county and state officials announced the Asian tiger mosquito, a breed known to carry the Zika virus, was discovered in Livonia. It's believed a company out of Toledo may have brought the bug to Michigan after stopping at a business in the Newburgh/Schoolcraft area. The discovery marks the first time the Asian tiger mosquito has been found in Michigan.

Wilson said the fogging treatment, which he said is being paid for by the Wayne County Health Department, will only take place today. County officials are expected to place traps in the area to continue monitoring for the mosquito for any that survived the fogging and larvicide treatment.

"After this treatment is done, there are traps strategically placed," he said. "There will be continuing monitoring of those traps."

Wilson said Wayne County has put some traps south of the treatment area near the residential homes off of Amrhein, but he said those are being done as a precautionary measure to determine if mosquitoes have gotten that far south.

"Some residents are agreeable to having traps in their backyards to the south," he said. "This is just a prudent measure to monitor."

The larvicide treatment will be the same type of treatment the city of Livonia has used for more than a decade since the West Nile virus came to the area.

It's expected crews will be out this morning and continue treatment into the evening.

Wilson said residents who live in the area bordering the treatment zone south of Amrhein do not need to do anything special with this treatment application, but encouraged them and other residents across Livonia to continue policing their property for standing water where mosquitoes could breed.